390 quotes found
“The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.”
“There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.”
“Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.”
“Personality too is destiny.”
“The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.”
“I don't go by the rule book-I lead from the heart not the head.”
“Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.”
“Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it is t...”
“In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.”
“This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.”
“Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people.”
“Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.”
“What one man does another fails to do what's fit for me may not be fit for you.”
“Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.”
“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide.”
“If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.”
“To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.”
“True inward quietness ... is not vacancy but stability-the steadfastness of a single purpose.”
“Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assig...”
“No matter where I run I meet myself there.”
